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Selected Verse: 1 Kings 3:14 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| 1Ki 3:14 |
Strong Concordance |
And if thou wilt walk [03212] in my ways [01870], to keep [08104] my statutes [02706] and my commandments [04687], as thy father [01] David [01732] did walk [01980], then I will lengthen [0748] thy days [03117]. |
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King James |
And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| I will lengthen thy days - The promise here was only conditional. As the condition was not observed Kg1 11:1-8, the right to the promise was forfeited, and it was not fulfilled. Solomon can scarcely have been more than fifty-nine or sixty at his death. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| And if - This caution God gives him, lest his wisdom should make him proud, careless, or presumptuous. |
1 But king [04428] Solomon [08010] loved [0157] many [07227] strange [05237] women [0802], together with the daughter [01323] of Pharaoh [06547], women of the Moabites [04125], Ammonites [05984], Edomites [0130], Zidonians [06722], and Hittites [02850];
2 Of the nations [01471] concerning which the LORD [03068] said [0559] unto the children [01121] of Israel [03478], Ye shall not go in [0935] to them, neither shall they come in [0935] unto you: for surely [0403] they will turn away [05186] your heart [03824] after [0310] their gods [0430]: Solomon [08010] clave [01692] unto these in love [0157].
3 And he had seven [07651] hundred [03967] wives [0802], princesses [08282], and three [07969] hundred [03967] concubines [06370]: and his wives [0802] turned away [05186] his heart [03820].
4 For it came to pass, when [06256] Solomon [08010] was old [02209], that his wives [0802] turned away [05186] his heart [03824] after [0310] other [0312] gods [0430]: and his heart [03824] was not perfect [08003] with the LORD [03068] his God [0430], as was the heart [03824] of David [01732] his father [01].
5 For Solomon [08010] went [03212] after [0310] Ashtoreth [06253] the goddess [0430] of the Zidonians [06722], and after [0310] Milcom [04445] the abomination [08251] of the Ammonites [05984].
6 And Solomon [08010] did [06213] evil [07451] in the sight [05869] of the LORD [03068], and went not fully [04390] after [0310] the LORD [03068], as did David [01732] his father [01].
7 Then did Solomon [08010] build [01129] an high place [01116] for Chemosh [03645], the abomination [08251] of Moab [04124], in the hill [02022] that is before [06440] Jerusalem [03389], and for Molech [04432], the abomination [08251] of the children [01121] of Ammon [05983].
8 And likewise did [06213] he for all his strange [05237] wives [0802], which burnt incense [06999] and sacrificed [02076] unto their gods [0430].